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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Grande Anse in Guadeloupe


Earthquake location 16.7531S, -61.0704WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Grande Anse in Guadeloupe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 39.91 km, -61.0704° West, 16.7531° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 39.91 km (25 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/04/18 / 2018-04-05 11:27:00 / April 5, 2018 @ 11:27 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:27:00 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000duxi. Unique identifier: us2000duxi.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Les Abymes (c. 63 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Baie-Mahault (c. 30 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Le Gosier (c. 28 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Petit-Bourg (c. 25 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Saint John’s (c. 24 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sainte-Anne (c. 22 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Le Moule (c. 22 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Antigua and Barbuda (c. 87 000 pop), Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bouillante, Grand-Bourg, Pointe-Noire.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km N of Grande Anse, Guadeloupe.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.0704° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.7531° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km N of Grande Anse, Guadeloupe Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-05 11:27:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-05 11:40:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000duxi Id of event.
Event Code 2000duxi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000duxi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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